October 07, 2021
A man who applied for more than half a million dollars in fraudulent pandemic relief loans before faking his own suicide following his arrest and going on the run for three months was sentenced Thursday to close to five years in prison by a Rhode Island federal judge.
September 03, 2020
Rhode Island federal prosecutors said Thursday they indicted a Massachusetts man who allegedly faked his own death and spent more than a month on the lam after being charged with fraudulently applying for nearly $544,000 in forgivable small business loans through the Paycheck Protection Program.